archiving data, was RE: Media Longitevity/Care

[Jim Leonard]

Doc Shipley wrote:
> Jim Leonard wrote:
> 
>>  And, cost permitting, transferred to new media.
> 
>   As has been pointed out, that's rarely an issue in production 
> environments.  Info gets migrated to new storage _formats_ long before 
> the current media's integrity comes into play.

Sorry, I implied new formats when I wrote "media" :-)  My bad...
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